Solovetsky Monastery Cultural Space Semiotics: Historygenesis and Structure

Basic Tasks of Cultural Semiotics

Communication and the Semiotics of Space

The purpose of this article is to explicate some common situations relevant to communication and the semiotics of space. Semiotics provides a systemic way to analyse and understand the characteristics of signs expressing meaning. In everyday life space is rarely considered for its independent qualities, but is more generally taken as a category of conceptions that act as a background, or a cont...

Mealtime at a Tibetan monastery.

With assistance from lay volunteers and using a giant stove, Tibetan monks at Longen monastery in rural Qinghai province China prepare and serve meals for several hundred of their peers during the summer retreat. In the past, rugged geography and the isolation of this monastery above 13,000 feet gave reasons for the monks to eat local meat since other foodstuffs were unavailable in an area unab...

Design and Semiotics

Designers are among those professionals who have shown a first and continued interest in the modern revival of semiotics. In search of a theory for a field of human practice characterized by a lack of conceptual discipline, designers, especially those formed in the Ulm School tradition, were willing to adopt semiotics as their theory, provided that semioticians pay attention to critical problem...

Applied Semiotics for Cross-Cultural HCI in Advergames: Design and Implications

In this paper, we propose the application of Semiotics as a way to convey cultural meanings in persuasive games, such as advergames. For that, we manipulate elements that are strategically incorporated in advergaming design, considering different cultural backgrounds. Aspects that compose games, such as elements, mechanics, interface design, were shaped in order to provide a more specific inter...